Download PDF by Pauline Chazan: The Moral Self

By Pauline Chazan

ISBN-10: 0415168627

ISBN-13: 9780415168625

The ethical Self addresses the query of ways morality enters into our lives. Pauline Chazan attracts upon psychology, ethical philosophy and literary interpretation to rebut the view that morality's function is to restrict wish and keep watch over self-love. Perserving the ancients' connection among what's stable for the self and what's morally stable, Chazan argues convinced type of take care of the self is significant to ethical business enterprise. Her fascinating argument starts off with a severe exam of the perspectives of Hume, Rousseau and Hegel. The positive a part of the publication takes a more odd flip through synthesising the paintings at the analyst Heinz Kohut and Aristotle into Chazan's personal confident account, that is then illustrated via Russian literature.

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So he does not say (as common opinion would say) that the impressions are inseparable in thought. For if 2 and 3 are converted into ideas and put into prepositional form, the logical implications of each are quite different. The radicalness of his thesis emerges when we consider that it involves a certain kind of psychological contingency which allows for cases where 3 will be missing. While of 2 and 3 Hume says that one will not be unattended with the other, he does not hold that pride and humility are inescapable.

Hume does say at T 278 and T 287 that pride produces the idea of the self. 8 The reconstruction that I present below of Hume’s thought sees it as advanced and quite radical for his time. My reconstruction will present Hume, when he says that pride produces the idea of the self, as claiming that the relation between these two is not a one-way causal relation (whether ‘causality’ is taken in a Humean or non-Humean sense) but, rather, that there exists between these two a relationship of mutual construction.

Rather than being in possession of ‘la raison naturelle’, social man is under the control of the ‘reason that turns man’s mind back upon itself, and divides him from everything that could disturb or afflict him’ (Rousseau 1955a:184). People under the sway of reason that combines with amour-propre are less affected by the plight of others and so are less capable of experiencing and expressing compassion than is uncivilised man. Becoming a social self, bowing to social pressures, and encountering the falseness of appearances and the evil that these bring, is for Rousseau constitutive of a loss of self.

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